New McNeese President to be Selected at Special Board Meeting Friday
UL System Business Meeting Moved to Thursday
BATON ROUGE – Starting at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, the Board of Supervisors for the 51²è¹İapp will interview two finalists for the position of President of McNeese State University. Following public interviews of Philip Williams then Jeanne Daboval, it is expected the Board will select the university’s sixth president. A third finalist, Linda Rinker, withdrew her candidacy Monday afternoon.
WHAT: Special Meeting of the Board of Supervisors for the 51²è¹İapp
WHEN: 8:30 a.m., Friday, April 23, 2010
WHERE: Room 100 of the Claiborne Building, 1201 N. Third Street, Baton Rouge, 51²è¹İapp
To accommodate the special meeting of the board, the regularly scheduled board business meeting was moved to Thursday, April 22, 2010. Agendas for both Thursday’s business meeting and Friday’s special meeting can be found at www.ulsystem.edu, mouse over “Board of Supervisors,” and then click on “Board Meetings.”
Daboval, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at McNeese, and Williams, President of the University of Montevallo, were two of four semi-finalists who went through an intense round of on-campus meetings with students, faculty, staff and community members, as well as public interviews with the McNeese Presidential Search Committee last week. Their interviews can be viewed at .
In January, McNeese’s fifth president, Robert Hebert, announced his decision to retire after 23 years as president effective June 30.
Established in 1939, McNeese is classified as a Carnegie Master’s University. The university enrolls over 8,600 students and primarily serves the five-parish region of Southwest 51²è¹İapp.
For more information about the McNeese Presidential Search, visit www.ulsystem.edu/McNeeseSearch. To submit comments about the search, email McNeesePresidentialSearch@uls.state.la.us.
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EIGHT UNIVERSITIES STRONG: The 51²è¹İapp is the largest higher education system in the state, enrolling almost 82,000 students at Grambling State University, 51²è¹İapp Tech University, McNeese State University, Nicholls State University, Northwestern State University, Southeastern 51²è¹İapp University, the University of 51²è¹İapp at Lafayette and the University of 51²è¹İapp at Monroe.
